1972, my favorite year...
A few years ago I managed to acquire the first 12
episodes of The Streets of San Francisco (a Quinn Martin production), on dvd
for cheap. I put that in a box with a bunch of other dvds and pretty much
forgot about it until recently.
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| 1972 Ford Galaxie driven by Micheal Douglas season 1 episode 3 |
Karl Malden was a very fit 60 year old who looked younger than he was… and Michael Douglas was a baby-faced, wavy haired, 28 year old
with a beautiful smile.
What a pleasure to rewatch a television program I
barely remember from a much simpler time….
1972. Local phone
numbers were 7 digits long,… telephones had rotary dials… most automobiles were
huge, lumbering creations that drank gasoline at an insane rate.
1972 was the year U.S. President Richard Nixon ordered
the development of a Space Shuttle program.
The 1972 Olympics were held in Sapporo Japan.
Roberta Flack was singing Killing Me Softly with his Song.
In February U.S. President Richard M. Nixon made an
unprecedented 8-day visit to the People's Republic of China and meets with Mao
Zedong.
In March the Pioneer 10 spacecraft was launched from
Cape Kennedy, to be the first man-made satellite to leave the solar system.
And: Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull is
released, a concept album supposedly written by an 8-year-old boy, Gerald
Bostock.
The movie masterpiece The Godfather premiered. Other
1972 movie releases included: Deliverance, Jeremiah Johnson, The Getaway, Cabaret,
and Silent Running.
April 17. 1972 – The first Boston Marathon in which
women are officially allowed to compete.
Comedian George Carlin is arrested by Milwaukee police
for public obscenity, for reciting his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On
Television" at Summerfest.
The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach,
Florida nominates U.S. President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew
for a second term.
Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in a chess match in
Reykjavík, Iceland, becoming the first American world chess champion.
The television series M*A*S*H begins its run on CBS.
October 13, 1972 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: A
Fairchild FH-227D passenger aircraft transporting a rugby union team crashes at
about 14,000 feet (4,300 m) in the Andes mountain range, near the
Argentina/Chile border. Sixteen of the survivors are found alive December 20
but they have had to resort to cannibalism to survive (for 68 days in desolate,
snow shrouded mountains).
Atari kicks off the first generation of video games
with the release of their seminal arcade version of Pong.
Apollo 17 (Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Harrison
Schmitt), the last manned Moon mission to date, is launched and The Blue Marble
photograph of the Earth is taken. Eugene Cernan was the last astronaut of the
era to walk on the Moon.
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| The Big Blue Marble by the crew of Apollo 17 |
December 26 – Former United States President Harry S.
Truman dies in Kansas City, Missouri.
Burt Reynolds poses nude for the centerfold of the
April edition of Cosmopolitan.
Popular television programs included: All in The
Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Sanford and Son,
Maude, Gunsmoke, and Marcus Welby M.D.
Top songs included Rocket Man (Elton John), Lean On Me
(Bill Withers), Back Stabbers (The O’Jays), Garden Party (Rick Nelson), Hurting
Each Other (The Carpenters).
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